The Gazette 1992

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New Preparatory Course for Entrance Examination

other subjects had come to the fore in recent years. "Knowledge of equity and the law of trusts is a prerequisite to the understanding of tax and how it works. The correct and proper avoidance of tax and the schemes relating to it is an essential part of law students' training. Equity, as every practitioner knows, has a fundamental effect on the practice of law in its many aspects. It is important that non-law graduate entrants would also establish a basic level of knowledge of European Community Law since European law permeates through a variety of different modules now on both the professional and advanced courses." Law Graduates now exempt from FE-1 must anticipate that they will need to cover E.C. Law and Equity as well as the full Law of Property syllabus. This is an area where consultations with the universities must now be put in place.

The Law School is proposing a new preparatory course for the Final Examination - First Part (FE-1) from next Autumn. According to the Chairman of the Education Committee, JustinMcKenna, the examination has created an industry of grind schools over the years. " I believe that the Law School can provide as good a service if not better. We have recently upgraded our facilities in the Gym. This has enhanced the existing teaching facility and will enable us to make night courses available." Further details of the new preparatory course will be published later in the year. Introduction of New Core Subjects The Education Committee is discussing the introduction of two new core subjects, Equity and European Community Law, to be added to the six core subjects that form the Entrance Examination for admission to the Law School. Applicants to the Law School who are not law graduates will now have to sit examinations in these subjects in addition to the traditional six core subjects: Property, Contract, Tort, Company, Criminal and Constitutional Law. The new subjects may be examined as separate subjects making an eight subject Final Examination - First Part, or they may be included within the existing six subjects by having trusts and other equitable aspects of land law treated within the Law of Property. This might be examined in two papers rather than the present one, while EC Law may have its overall structure examined within the Constitutional Law paper. Other aspects may be covered in the other subject areas where EC Law must be considered in tandem with domestic law. Justin McKenna explained that while the core subjects had not changed for over a decade, the relevance of

Education Committee is acutely aware that the imposition of a further two subjects at the entrance point to the Law School will create a strain on examination candidates. " We are anxious to minimise this strain and we will explore various options including the timing of exam sittings." These may be spread to give the student longer time to prepare between each examination. A new preparatory course which would be run by the Law School from next Autumn would also be a help, he said. New Law School Fees A new schedule of fees has come into operation with effect from 1 February, 1992. This is the first increase in fees since 1989. The increases have been kept to a minimum, but are necessary if the Law School is to continue to operate on a break-even basis.

According to Justin McKenna, the

The new schedule is set out below: -

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£ 1. On each application to attend the First Irish examination or Second Irish examination 50.00 2. On each application to attend the Preliminary Examination 100.0 3. On each application for entry on the Register of Apprentices by the Registrar of Indentures of Apprenticeship, other than supplemental Indentures 350.0 4. On application (whether for the first or any subsequent time) to take each subject of the Final Examination - First Part 25.00 5. On each application to attend the Professional Course 2,407.00 6. On each application to attend the Advanced Course 965.00 7. On each application for permission to give late notice of intention to attend any examination 25.00 8. For each day or part of a day re-attending the Professional Course or the Advanced Course (including re-taking any individual part of the Final Examination - Second Part or the Final Examination - Third part) 25.00 9. On application for entry of a name on the Roll of Solicitors . 100.00

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